NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The RIAA's motion to keep secret the record companies' 1999-to-date revenues for the copyrighted song files at the heart of the case has been denied, in the Boston case bent upon for trial July 27th, SONY BMG Music merriment v. Tenenbaum. The Judge had in anticipation ordered the especially in court.
accuser record companies to produce a summary of the 1999-to-date revenues for the recordings, broken down into physicality and digital sales. On the day the summary was due to be produced, instead of producing it, they produced a 'protective order motion' asking the Judge to rule that the data would have to be kept secret. The Judge rejected that motion: 'the Court does not comprehend how revelation




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demonstrate would impair the Plaintiffs' music and more calling perpetual when three of the four biggest record labels in the world — Warner Bros. Records, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and UMG Recording, Inc. — are participating jointly in this lawsuit and, presumably, would have joint access to this information.'"

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